Re. Disappearing disk space

Michael Lichter michael at cit-vlsi
Wed Sep 4 20:23:21 AEST 1985


	Larry Campbell (campbell at maynard.UUCP) was complaining about
	disappearing disk space.  One possibility is that some program
	(perhaps something in the news system, since you mentioned it)
	is creating a temporary file and then unlinking (deleting) it
	without closing it.  Whatever amount of space the open unlinked
	file uses will be invisibly taken until the program closes it or
	the system crashes.

	Michael Lichter
	michael at cit-vax.arpa



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